Loved itsome of his novels from the 30s particularly vile bodies from 1930 and a handful of dust from 1934 i absolutely love and i find hilarious
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A Handful of Dust (1934)
Others: Positive Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. She sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. Tragedy forces the collapse of their relationship to accelerate, and Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado.
- ISBN:
- 9780241341100
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- 269 pages
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